Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous

Been hopping also. A lot in the past year. A lot.Seems as i've settled on Debian Squeeze. In the end, i was torn between Squeeze and #!. Loved the way my computer behaved with #!, but if i have extra ram and cpu, and use it as a desktop computer, don't know if it would be an advantage actually. So, basically, i don't know

Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous

I'm going to copy here what I said in the introductions section:

I've started using Linux in 2006. I tried it earlier than that, but Slackware was not exactly the best choice. Anyway, after a few failed attempts with Mandriva, Fedora and some other distros that I can't remember, I finally discovered PCLinuxOS, which was like a breath of fresh air and this is where my journey began.

After a while I've used openSUSE 10.2, then PCLinuxOS 2007 (amazing release). By then I was a big fan of KDE 3, but, alas, KDE 4 appeared and I went to Ubuntu.

In this period I got my hands on an old laptop with only 128 MB of RAM (which does not accept more), so I started to search for lightweight distros, beginning with Zenwalk, Puppy, Antix, etc. At one point I decided to try Debian, so I did a CLI netinstall and I was amazed that I managed to do it and installed Xorg, fluxbox, etc. From that point I was hooked on Debian.

I liked Debian with fluxbox so much, that I installed it on my main laptop and used it since, but I did use Lubuntu for a while, when it appeared, and CrunchBang since February. Right now I'm using plain Debian with openbox on both laptops, but #! is great and when I need a liveCD or a quick install, I just install #!

To me, #! is the perfect distro, because it's basically Debian configured: stable, lightweight, very configurable and easy to use. It could be prettier by default, but I can live with that.

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so, i somehow choked out my laptop. i think it was when trying to run spring, or something. i'll spare the gruesome details of that. while rebooting (i could have just restarted X), i thought i'd try the artistx dvd i'd tried on the workstation, here on my laptop...

if failed on the workstation (as i mentioned in an edit in my last DHA confessional), but here it works. i'm using it to type this right now (in konqueror no less. lol, it's been a long time)

i dont even know if this is gnome or kde i'm in, it's rather sleekly done, as you'd expect from a distro made for artists, and thus almost certainly by at least some artists too. it's not gonna be a minger.

but i have looked through it's menu... and that's what's got me excitedly bounding back to post about it again.

if you're an artist, and you like to always have all the tools on hand for that moment of inspiration when that one obscure app becomes the right tool for the job, and not want to have to clearly remember the names of them, nor have to go install them... then this is for you.

infact, this would be a great distro for loads of peeps who dont really consider themselves artists, but may at least have some kind of dabble with some kind of multimedia (er, or monomedia?).

i can already think of one windows refugee i'm going to go recommend it to already. ~er, even though his box doesnt like debian (or ubuntu) based distros... drat. that ruins that idea... well, folks in his situation at least, minus the box-no-like-deb stuff of course. sorry, i'm babbling...

anyways, a big happy salute, from this artist, at artistx. past times i recall it was shabbier than this. that's always impressive when a distro actually gets better over time. more rare than you might think.

i am seriously impressed with the selection of tools though. really must stress that. perusing that menu is like artist catnip.

now i'm kinda torn between...

do i...

install all that, in my crunchbang?

or...

install it&install my window managers and configs i use from crunchbang...

... but... install to where? over where crunchbang is? try to squeeze it's install on my only spare pendrive... it's only 8gb... n considering the dvd is something like 3.8... no. doubt it.

drat...

looks like best option is to go take notes of it all and install it on my crunchbang.

hrmm, i know it's ubuntu based, but i wonder if i could just pinch the installed apps list from artistx, and install it over crunchbang... yes, bloater desktop environments and all.

i feel that urge to a have an "everything and the kitchen sink" install again.

i'll never use hardly any of it... but it's just nice it's there. and having the likes of kde and gnome... well... that would just give more credence to my cheeky dismissive and/or insulting remarks to emphasize my distaste for them.

at least then i could show i know what i'm talking about, and not just holding old grudges. XD

no one could accuse me of being a xmonadtard. XD

... i think i have the distroholic rages n sweats. distro-fever. taking a funny turn from too much distro surfing/hopping after a prolonged abstinence.

see in there.... very tempting leg-ups into bedrock, without the hard work. pre-made versions, as an empty core, ready for clients, or one with arch, one with deb arch and gentoo... how can u resist?

heh... maybe that's what i should do... get a bedrock with both an artistx for ubuntu compatibility, a crunchbang for debian compatability, an arch/parabola/whatever, and a gentoo and an exherbo and a slack an~ damnit... it seems like such a good idea, but then i hear myself, and it sounds like such manic excesses. or at least opening the door to such manic excesses.

Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous

Do you want to test a few different WMs?Here is Linux BBQ Oyster that offers an 'estimated' 40(yes I did say 40) different ones.I think it is an estimate as the community is still working on adding more!

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^ I've downloaded Oyster and am truly impressed by the work! All these window managers to test, a real dream! I wasn't aware some members of CrunchBang forums were working on Linuxbbq; I take my hat off to them, it's truly amazing, keep up the good work!

Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous

Um, we're talking about window managers, not distros, and whatever you think about Mint and Ubuntu is not relevant. Hating Mint and Ubuntu is way too easy. And seriously, you've been through them all? CRUX, sourcemage, lunar, draco, and all the other tiny obscure distros? Wow, you should write a book, or at least a thread about your experiences.

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pidsley wrote:

Um, we're talking about window managers, not distros, and whatever you think about Mint and Ubuntu is not relevant. Hating Mint and Ubuntu is way too easy. And seriously, you've been through them all? CRUX, sourcemage, lunar, draco, and all the other tiny obscure distros? Wow, you should write a book, or at least a thread about your experiences.

Everything is relevent to someone out there who can see past Mint and Ubuntu. Do you think I want to hate Mint and Ubuntu? I wish they were good but they are just overhyped like most things today. Being at Crunchbang I would have thought you would have had a better mind frame than this.

The topic is distro hopping not window managers. I can certainly say that window manager used by most claiming to be lightweight actually sucks. You know that lame Lubuntu, ZorinOS lightweight etc, vile! Openbox is much better.

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Not file managers, window managers. At least read the few posts above yours before you find another reason to hype Zorin.(oh, I see you did finally read the thread and changed your post. good for you) and there are many window managers more lightweight than openbox. Check it out: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … n-30-days/

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pidsley wrote:

Not file managers, window managers. At least read the few posts above yours before you find another reason to hype Zorin.

if you did not reply so fast you would see I edited my message before you sent this message above. Its not my fault that ZorinOS6 blows Mint and Ubuntu out of the water. I use it and Crunchbang, I would not dream of using anything else especially Mint its vile!

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merelyjim wrote:

^Nothing really special, but lots of choices means you can pick what you like best.

Have you tried it yet? Tested the bbq-tools? Found the Easter Eggs? We have configured most of the WMs there, so they do work as expected (all WMs have working panels or root menus, are linked to the bbqtools and the cookbook). If this is 'nothing really special' then I don't know.